The Sun. — London, England, 1826-12-22 00:00:00

Counsel the Milt opportunity of arguing the question in the Court of CoMmon Pleas ; but if such evidence were to be allowed in this way, no man could, with safety, attempt ,to defend hie cha racter, for when be came to. Court to try one question, he might he nnexpectedly met by another. . • • . Mr. Sergeant 'Wank feared, that if suchwee ,his Lordship's derision, he should be obliged to condole with his Learned Brother. Supposing that every word published had actually taken place at Bow-street, still, acc)r4itl to his ,Lordship'a decision, that was no answer to the aetion—it %vas useless to put it upon the record, at e it was a nullity. , ,He did; not mean to bey that publishing the prte. ceedinga at Police Offices was strictly right ; but he did says, that it was doing that which the world in general thought conferred great public benefit ; mild yet a defendant coidd not plead hie truth, his impartiality, in mitigation nf. damagee.., The Learned Coonsel for the plaintiff .said, that great benefit was derived from the publication of the proceedings in our superior Conde. But were the proceedings in our Courts of Law of more general Pehlke:ins portance—wae a greeternumber of persons interested in er affected by them, than by the -proceedings ,in our Police OffiCee He believed it would he fount), that the proceedings at Police'llffii•es, and the inquiries Logi discoveries to which they led, were of greater public importance, :and their publication of greater public benefit; than the . general 'husinese of our superior Courts. The true reason why this action was brought was this—the plain tiff knew that the defendant would not be allowed to prove his statement. As to the terms " Predawn and Lockitt," he would venture' to eay, that not one in a hundred of Mr. Harris's cue. Comers knew what they meant ; they would imagine them to have reference to some locket which had been pledged. He (Mr. Ser geant Wilde) was aware that it was the opinion of the :fudges, that the publicatiennf police reports was produetive of harm to the public. I,Vbett arguing upon points of law before the Court, it was alike his duty and his inclination to bow to its decision ; but, when: addressing a jury, he felt, with deference to the Bench, that he had a right to state his awn opinions upon such a riot as that. lie thought that though, in point of law, tanks were not justified in publishing such reports, still they were productive of great public benefit ; and lie appealed to the fury, as men conversant with the world and the every-day affairs of life, whether, in their opinion, such Was siot.the fact? He trusted, thereke, that in esti mating the quantum of damages to which the plaintiff was en titled, they would not allow themselves to be influeneed ;by the impremiim that the publication of Police Reports was injurious, anti ought to" he' repreved. lie knew that'a verdict mug pass for the plaintiff but hating et all the facts of the case, and taking into eonaideretirin that the plaintiff had offered to free him self Irma the charge of malice, by showing that what be stated had eeedrred, he trusted that the smallest sum would be found suffit:ient to satisfy the justice of the case. The Cathay Junlcz could not agree in the opinions expressed by his Learned Brother, as to the policy of publishing Police Re ports; and he we; surprised to hear that Learned Goldman, who had been so !Ong acquainted with the administration of justice, express an opinion that the publication of such reports had been ever attended with any but bad consequences. His Learned Bro ther had told the fury, that the majority of the public were of the sane opinion with himielf upon this subject. They hid no mode of polling or otherwise ascertaining the feeling of that many headed creature, the Public. His (the Chief Justice's) own opi nion, after forty yeats experience, was, that there never was any thing more mischievous, more degrading to the publie Press, than the publication of every disgusting vice and depravity exposed at our Pollee Offices. the public papers, instead of conveying useful anti pleasing intimation, were made the vehicles of conveying to the innocent and the unwary a knowledge of every trick, of every disgusting exhibition to be found amongst tLe lowest and the worst portion of society. But the evil did not rest force—the unfortunate parties who were examined preparatory to tuck being mut before another tribune!, had a strong prejudice ereated'againat them in the public mind. 'Souse persons had as sorted, that jurymen might read such statements without preju dice to the interests of the parties to be tried. That Jurymen roust have great confidence in the strength of his own mind, if he thought he could withdraw hie mind front the consideration of ark ex-parte statement, end go without prejudice to the consideration Of the case of which it formed a part. 4e said, that the publica tinn of such statements was moot dangerous. But if the fawned feergeant thought otherwise—..if he thought such publications productive of public benefit r athen let himipply to the Legisla ture, and call upon .them to alter tine law upon the subject. He said that the publication in this cow was an offence ; and he said of the more readily, because he had been long and intimately ac. quaimed with the worthy Magistrate (Mr, Mituditill), whose name was introduced' into it. Ile regretted that diet Honourable Castleman shout& tallow, timing tunic ca-parts statements, the pliareritif Of July, persens who gave them to the paddle. . b a d been decided by tine Judges that the publication Of a Police Report was an i n di e tabj e / *nee ;, but there wee further authority in sup 'part of that deeition, Ile form of the oath proposed to our Grand Jury, and which, no doubt, several of the present Jury had taken, showed the opinion 'of our rations of seemly previous to The,King's counsel, your fellowii, and your own, you shall truly keep," masa leading part of the form of , that oath ; but it would be ridiculous to propose such an oath in future, if every fact which could come before a Grand Jury was to be . anticipated by a pUhliea l tipri of the police statement, upon which the commitment wuntefft pot. He felt no hesita tion in saying, that it was altogether illegal to publish any ex parte statement taken helms. a Magistrate, He knew nothing of the plaintiff, or of his haaioem, save A•rool the atatenstaits of Counsel; from throe he *rued that he was a tradesman, carrying on business* the Strand. It appaared that what had been said of him was initiate, and whether the proceedings detailed in the news paper did or did not take place at Bow-stireet, was matter of no consequence, the culpability of the defendant was the wane in the present case. The Learned kiargeant urged, in defence of his client, that he was not actuated by malice in publishing this state most. It might be true that the tlefew4nt was not actuated by malice—by that bitternese of mind which, was usually meant by that expression. But it this Editor, Ito the purpose of invica sing the sale of his Paper, pandered to the . base and degraded ap petites of those who delighted in the gromest and the most wicked waternenta, and put the profits thereof into his pocket, theO lie was actuated by that which the law cousidered malice. Whether such was the cam in the present instance, the July mathd decide by the amount of damages which they awarded to the plaintiff. The Jury proceeded to consider their verdict, at ten minutes to five o'clock.—At five o'clock they retired, and The Otter Jusrrtee. esker( Counsel if they would consent to have dui : ye:diet taken by tine Officer ofthe Court, as he was about to retire? Both counsel mounted. But as his Lordship was about to Imo the court, Mr. Serjeaut VAttonsatN expresseal a hope, tint he would certify this tu'be's proper cause for a Spesia,/ jury, The Cum , Jarrims- said he would tala• mail to-morrow to consider of it. At a quarter pad five the Jury returned into court, and gave a verdict for the Plaintiff —damages 100?. Mr: *Elias Isaacs was Attorney fur the Pleintilf, and Mr. Hel d/11,3;a the Defendant. .PORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSAI tl. notice neettirol yesterday ; but ig of the toot'u was dull, be(fame Le following adds utlif. Nothing worthy of particular the betting, which at the openly very tsritik tovqrchr evening, at t 30 to I apt Gauntlin* SO to t agst r rtireollian 130 to 1 apt Lord Ailisi;tity SO kr f apt Eliza Teazle 40 to 1 agst Antar 40 to I agst Cressida" 40 to I agst Snowdrop" 40 to 1 agst Chieftain to l agst Cat 4000 to 10 apt Hildebrand (taken 5 tittles,) 10 to I agat 'rola 103 to 1 apt Wehl, 1$ to I atilt fttpagtiolle 20 to 1 .agat Catlievole 20 to I apt Eitria to . l ag!t Trompeter* 21 to 1 agst Gustavus* 21. to 1 apt Dauntless* 21 to I tigat Mirada** SO to 1 apt Augusta so to 1 'apt Dahlia 1W to I apt Metre to 600 Tatlar v. Wab (talteil Na y ) 10 to 1 apt Mr. Nrytulhamsalot.* UAXB. 11 to 2 apt Maria m 20 to 1 ago Unary la to 1 opt Tottschlge 40 to apt Illicia4 4 " • la to I apt 13rowii Ditchers 40 to 1 art Mirth* 16 to apt Souvenir 1000 to jf) apt Recruit. 18 to 1 Kist Tranolation 1000 to 15 apt Aild) • 500 to 400 Brown Dueller§ agst sT. 1 rora. fib to 1 apt Matilda* 1 to I apt hfoonehine. 11 in lon the field 40 to 1 apt Cal. SYke'''' Nothing *lee mentioned. novo marked this ('') were taker!. fIYDRAPtIOBIA..,—'IIte inala,tteholy efrects of 063 dreadful malady were witnessed a few days ago, in the death of a littler boy, about eight yours of age, son of Mr. Thotlie, bink. staid), in the parish of Langtres; the atilt' was bit in the hand, tome weas since, by a dog, supposed to be mad ; the parts in.. i 4l " 4. wara cut out by A. ourtson store whit& time the secret's health has been declining, but his mental faculties remained Per feet Until within a few days of his death ; his niatekuT terminated in the most ontragemis agonies,..-Porset Chroside. STOCK EXCHANGE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,--Yonr sweeping denunciation of this day against - the members of the Stock ExChange, as "rogues by the system of the place, and pursuing dishonest practices all the year round," as well as your identifying them with an individual never respec ted or thought worthy of credit among them, and who is now distinctly charged with the guilt of forgery, has been most Wien-. sive to the whole body. That the system is bad in itself, and.an incitement to dishonesty, is not a sufficient justification of such wholesale censure directed particularly *against the Stock Ex change. In commerce, in common retail-dealing, not to men tion that " time bargains" in goods are as frequent, and lead to as much fraud as those in the funds, the interests of the seller and buyer are always, pitted against each other, and much ro guery and deception are daily practiced ;. yet because such things occur, does any one think of calling merchants " rogues" by the effect of the " system ?" Any man who knows the city of LOndon is aware dud the list of those who act ,honourably in spite of it, is extremely numerous, and the same may be said with no less truth of the Stock Exchange, and were it decorous to quote names, in connection with such a subject, I Could present you with a long list of exceptions to the rule which you have made absolute. There are: men in the Stock Exchange, who, during the course of a • long life, have confined themselves strictly to the business of a broker, and, as their duty to principals requires, have never made. any speculative bargains on their own account. Yet this class, in your estimation, are con- rounded with the lest. The businessofu stockbroker must exist; it is useful and necessary for the public. hit fair, then, to stig matise indiscriminately all those who practise it ? Can the trade Dr profession be named, where confidence must be reposed in its members, where similar consequences do not occasionally take !dace ? The Stock Exchange is constantly, and as a matter of course, reproached with its (rands on the public ;, but if those committed by the publie.on the Stock Exchange were as promptly made known, they would be found to init-uninber. them. lathe case of a speculator nut of doors, , towhoM events prove adverse, there it no mode of compelling payment, if he chooses to be dishonest, while the broker, who transacted his business, and is made a de limiter by his deserting him, is expelled the Stock Exchange, and ;loses his means of livelihood. Numbers of young inexperienced members are annually ruined from this cause alone. It is the fashion also to exclaim against time-bargains as im aloral, as well as (by .an absurdity in our law) illegal. Some time-bargains there must unavoidably be; and what is a loan made to the Government but to take a certain quantity of stock St a fixed period, the payment of the last instalment, when it may be of far less or greater value than when the contract was made? The Government is a seller, the subscriber a buyer for time. It often happens, that individuals who 'seek to make in vestments in a particular stock arrive in tqwn when, the Bank is. closed for a holiday, or when the books of that stock are shut for the dividend. He must either make a "time-bargain" or be frus trated in his object ; yet, if the stock falls 10 per cent. in the in terval between purchase and payment, there is no law to compel the fulfilment of his contract. The broker must pay the differ ence, or be declared a defaulter. Time-ba►gaina in stock ought, undoubtedly, to be made legal as weH as those in goods, and as the doing so would infallibly correct much of the villainy practised oat of the house, it is to be hoped that it might be followed by a corresponding improvement of morals within it. In the Article of false news, of which the Stock Excliange has ;Llways to bear the imputation, it may be afl:'►rmed without fear of contradiction, that a very small number of tl e inventions set afloat Originate in the Stock Exchange. We are the prey of a set of men well known about 'Change, who having neither principle nor cha racter to lose, stick at nothing to gain their object. The utenibers taken collectively, and with much certainly to answer for, , are " more sinned against than. sinning." The object, of this letter has been fulfilled if it convinces you that there may be A " RESPECTABLE" STOCKBROKER. • Capel-court, Dee. 21. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Iloaxsmourn,. Dee. 20.—The bustle of the place is a little over to-day-,-yesterday we were all life and confusion ; nothing but . Generals to be seen, with their long feathers flying from one hotel to the other. About ten yesterday mining the Melville got under weigh, hitt was recalled, in consequence, it is said, of the unexpected arrival of Lady Bouverie, who intended to embark with her husband. In the afternoon Sir Edward Blakeney . and Sir Thorum, Arbuthnot, with their hors►, embarked et one o'clock on hoard the Melville, which „ship had come to anchor again ; and at three o'clock, Sir 'Photos* Hardy, with .Sir Henry Clinton, the commander-in-Chief, together with all the staff, em barked from the If ing's Sallyport in the Admiral's barge, and proceeded on boar► the Wellesley. Sir H. Clinton's baggage did not arrive )►ere until late yesterday, in consequence of the van in which it left London breaking down--this caused some delay. However, this morning the Wellesley and Melville got under weigh, with a fresh southerly wind; while Working' out of St. Helen's, the Glocester hove in eight, accoMpanied by two Govexn . ment ateam.vessels,—..he was ordered to proceed ; and those two ships anon rounded Culver• Point, and by one o'clock were out of sight. The Melville, from what we:could observe from the shore, appeared to be a very heavy ship ; she had the start at first of the Wellealpy, hut the latter anon posed her, and appears to sail two feet to the Melville's one. 'We 'understand 100 marines embark tomorrow morning in the Spartiate, which ship is to he paid on Saturday. and expected to tail on Monday next. She has not her lower deck guns out, but is complete on the war establishment, as an efficient ship. To-morrow the 10th Hussars are expected, and will embark • the moment they, arrive, as transports are all ready for them. It is a pity the horses had not been off before. as In case of a westerly wind coming on, the horses make poor sailors, beating to windward in the . Channel ; two days earlier would have been every thing for' them. GO when they may, the troops will carry with them the-hearty wishes of their country. men. -• Lord Melville arrived at the Admiral's on Monday after noon ; he visited the Dock Yard on Tuesday morning, and the NavaliCollege, it being the students, examination day, previous to going home for their holydays. His Lordship did not go afloat, nor hold a levee, but looked at the experimental ships while in the Dock Yard. A select number of naval officers were invited to meet his Lordship, at the Admiral's, at dinner each day ; and this morning his Lordship took his departure for London. • The Ambassador for South America embarked (under the usual sa lute) this afternoon, on board the Forte, accompanied by Prince Eaterhazy, who was also saluted on his Highness's leaving the ship . again. She is expected to nail to-marrow morning.—(Ano thief letter, same date.)--Ifia Majesty's ship Glocester hove-to off the' Nab Light this morning, until his Majesty's ships Melville and Wellesley got under weigh,' 7 when they *ailed in company for Lisboa, under the command of Admiral' Hardy. PISMOI9III, Per. 19.—Sailed his Majesty's ship Bittern, to the westward. We Majeuty'S ship, Windsor Castle, did not put, to sea until this morning. J.EEDS CORN MARKET, DFc. lib Th ere was a s Taix) supply of Grain, yet the demand continued ver y limited ; the finest samples, of Wheat was .solkat much the same _prices as last week, but middling qualities were very dull sale, at Is. to Is. 6d. per quarter decline. Barley was very slow sale,. arid Is. to 2s. per quarter lower. Oats were id. per stone, shelling Is. per lit 44 cheaper, and. Beans were ftill Is. per quarter lower. There was very little Rapeseed offered, and higher prices were asked. EDINBURG!! MEAL MARKET, Dee.lo, We had a middling supply of Oatmeal at this day's market, which sold heavily, and le. lower. Ist Oatmeal per sack of gso Truperum. £2 17 0 2d ditto, do. do. Oatmeal per stone of 14 Imperial lbs. . „ , 0 8 0 2d ditto . .„. ~. Barleyrneal per sack of 200 Imperial lbs. Ditto, ditto, per stone of 14 Imperial Ihs. Peasemeal per sack of 280 Imperial llis. Ditto, ditto, per stone of 14 Imperial lbs.' ' 0 2 4 Pat Burley--Ist, per cwt. 1411.-241,L65. --SO, 205,--Pearl do. 2 . To., tZS 1 4 ..:' )4,,. 7. , iv 1 - .,- ‘ ) 1 t- 'i:; - ... - - 7 -';'4 . 5;,.. - ....,c.,,„,—*i• .0 A 4lii t 4 pOLIC,'E INTF:LLIGENCE. If ATTON. Day,) Au nneetumon meagre looking man, named Stout, was charged bye hittaktt twined Fowler, with stealing a piece 01111 . 10 in of beef, horn a hook at the side of his blinp.door, weighing JO pounds. .—Cortnnitteit. (C I II^ , EINT-SQVARE.—TtIii DAY.) .Teremiah Pauninp was brought up, charged with stealing a quantity of 1ea41.--14,,nanded. The rumour of the murder of Mr. Bottoms, the Smithfield 6lieer and beak,t sal esman , t h at aeared inns Thous diesterdaY , h i ficttuiliei left Lon 4on on Monday even ing, • fig No !Mr, At width hi was seen on Tuesday, g , lot ' • .1-, we r e in ' 4."' • 11 ti b y several gawsrnen it I, qaztete, w it is LONDON, FIUDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 22, 1826. The French Papers of Wednesday, and the Etoile, dated yesterday, have reached town this morning, by express, together with the speech of M. DAmit.s, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, which, as had been an ticipated, is generally of a pacific character, as far as refers to the relations between France and Great Britain. The Minister declares that he and his colleagues are firmly, determined to advise his MA JESTY to refuse his support to the Spanish Government, if by its own fault, it puts Portugal under the necessity of assuming a hostile attitude towards it. " France," he adds, " cannot then be reduced to renounce " the advantages of peace, except,by circumstances which "he is far from fbreseeing. Her good faith and her dig nity would not permit her to support unjust and pas " sionate acts which have only taken place in contempt "of Councils which have been given, and promises " which have been made." All this is very satis factory as far as it goes, but it is no more than Mr. CANNING told us of the disposition of France, in his speech a fortnight ago. And the only matter of sur prise is how a question could ever have been raised, (which by, certain observations in this speech, we are led to suspect has been the ease) that the fulfilment by Great Britain of certain conditions of her Treaty with Portugal should be followed by a declaration of war by France. The two last paragraphs, of this ver sion of the speech of M. DAMAS also strike us as being capable of a construction very much at variance with that pacific spirit which it is supposed generally to breathe. After referring to the measures taken to pre vent a rupture between Spain and Portugal, this subtle Minister finishes by saying :---- " It is by thus following the rules of justice, by re " specting the faith of 1 reaties, and the rights of " other Powers, that France preserves all her advan " to es for sustaining her own rights, and even those " of Spain should she be unjustly attacked. " It was by defending the principles of ORDER " AND LEGITIMACY, that England came out view " rions from the long and sanguinary contest which " she sustained against the trench Revolution.— " The same success will attend us, if ever we should " in our time be called upon to defend the same " principles." How, we would ask, could Spain, under the pre sent circumstances, when M. DAssAs admits that her acts have been unjust and pas.sionate, in violation of promises, be attacked unjustly ? Anti what does the final flourish respecting the defence'of qie princi ples of Order and Legitimacy mean, but the defence of the absolute Government of Spain against the prin ciples of liberal Government ? On the whole, we must consider this speech as a very meagre production, not containing any manly or distinct declaration of the policy of France, but, on the other hand, full of reservation and trick, to enable her to pursue her own selfish objects, according to cir cumstances as they'arise. We subjoin the speech, and some extracts from the Papers :-- PRICES OP STOCKS Till Bank Stock 3 pet Cent. Ked 794% 9 .36 3 per Cent. Cons. IV 4 per Cent. , Ottto Red. , 851;4 5 per Cent. New Ditto, 1821 i. Bank Long Ann. India Stock Dit to Bonds. AI SIS nom DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. South Sea Stock 014 Annuities -7 Kew Ditto Ex. Blf tt, 1:1,000 24.1. 13 lb l 3 pm. Ditto 5OO 24 13 15 pm, Ditto tittiall Ditto Commercial Bank for Opening India for Account Cons. forliect. SoNN 80 h NOS AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES OF FOREIGN F Austrian Bonds, 5 per cent. — Brazilian Bonds — Buenos Ayres Bonds. Milian - Bonds, ti per ct, Colombian Bonds Ditto, 1824 .31 33 Danish, 3 per cent! "5 7 % Greek bonds Dittolt.lB26 17% Guatemala Mexican Bonds Do, 1125 .65 Neapolitan, 1424 Peruvian Bondi — Portuguese Bonds 7l Poussian, 5 per cent.... 92% Ditto, New — Buistan, New, 5 p. c. B3 Spanish, 1821 12% 1823 — French Nentea, 5 p. c ----Exchange 251. 50c. 3 per cent. ex div 6'7l 50c. 7-- Pschisnge 2sf. 150 c. Arigna Iron and Coal Mining Company £l2 Columbian Minini 4 Company l5 10eneral Mining iodation 5 Potosi La Paz an Peruvian Assoc. Alliance Marine Insurance Company......, r, PRICE OF itusti Bank Stock tiny. Stock, 3% per cent. 843¢ 4 Ditto, New B4 per lent. any. Deb. 3% per cent 85% Consols; 3 per cent. HoyakCanakStock Grind Canal Stack City Deb. 4 per cent. Ballast Office Deb. Iper cent. -- PRICES OF SHARES Alt 014 E O'CLOCK. i'er Share. 13 11 13 4 A:9 13 .£•2 12 4% STOCKS, DEC. 10. St. Patrick Imam. (per share) Royal Irish Ditto National Ditto Patriotic Ditto Hibernian Bank Provincial Ditto Royal Irish Mine Imperial Mine Mining Co. of Ireland Commercial Buildings M A Arrived, Due. O America U O Urn il U • 'Buenos Ayres • 0 . Donn tuulee ..... 1 Dublin 1 Flanders I France O Gottenburgh 0 .j I Guernsey& Jersey U liamburgh 0 i Holland ' 0 0 Jamaica _ LeewArd Islands 0 0 Lisban t) Malta • .4. 1 Waterford HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGR TO-MORROW. Morning 4 minutes after 8..] Evening minutes after 9, SPEECH OF THE FOREIGN MINISTER. noble Peers,—The discussion about to be opened iiefore you, imposes on us the obligation of making known to you the actual. situation . ot eittt relations with ths,States whose interests are more particularly connected with the late events. This is the duty which Y come to fulfil before you. " " At the time of the entry of the French army into Spain in 1823, the English Government• demanded and obtained froM France the promise that no hostility should be committed with respect to Portugal, and declared that it would consider itself obliged by for►ner treetits to come to the aid of that power, if it were attacked, " At the time the late troubles broke out in Portugal, a eimi- Iv declaration was made by England to Spain, and communicated to France as well as mall the great Powers of the Continent, and it was agreed that Spain sh ou ld un d erta k e not hi ng aga i ns t Porto gal, and that ou her part England would watch that Portugal committed no set of hostility against Spain. " We owe it to truth to say, that England has fulfilled the ob ligation which she took upon herself, and that . on their part all the powers have not ceased to act with a common consent to'.. ward, the Cabinet of Spain, to influee that power not to furnish to Portugal any subject of complaint. " However, at the very moment when that Cabinet gave its assurance that the arms taken from the refugees should be given up to the Portuguese Government ; at the moment when orders were given that the refugees themselves should be removed from the frontiers, these men have mitered Portugal in arms, and this midden attack has been accompanied by circumstances which leave no doubt as to the co-operation of some of the Spanish authorities, who had been charged with the execution of the order to disarm and disperse the refugees am ong the interior provinces. " France, which hail the greatest reason to prevent all hostili ties on the part of Spain.—Prance, which had the most right to h e listened to-N. - France, whose intervention Atould have inspired Portugal and England with tha greatest security as to the fulfil ment of the eagagern m t s O f th e Spanish Cohinet—could not remain indifferent to events which made appear inn manner so evident either contempt for its councils on the impotence of its influence, and the Kink's Government had immediately to testify its disapproba t i on b y reca lli n g its Ambassador from I,Tailrld. France does not contest with England the right resulting from its duty—the right imposed on it by a long series of treaties to go to the aid of Portugal. It will con tinue its efforts to prevent the renewal of acts which have au thorised the measures taken by the British Cabinet ; it will omit nothing to prevent a rupture between Spain and Portugal, and it hopes to succeed ; it has alreqy taken with regard to the Cabinet of Madrid, in concert with all its allies, steps the, most likely to attain this object. It continues to receive from the British Ca binet the most positive assurances of its entire co-operation. No-, thing which has taken place up to the latest events authorises the King's Government to raise any doubts on the sincerity of these assurances ; on their part, the Ministers of the King are firmly de termined to advise his Majesty to refuse his support to the Spanish Government, if by its own fault, it puts Portugal under the ne cessity of assuming a hostile attitude towardi it. " France cannot, then, be reduced to renounce the advantages of peace, except by circumstances which wt are far from foresee ing. Her good faith and her dignity would not permit her to sup port unjust and passionate acts, which have `only taken place in contempt of councils which have been given and promises which have been made. " It is by thus following the rules of juttice-;—by respecting the faith of treaties, and the rights of other Powers, that France pre serves all her advantages for sustaining her own rights, and even those of Spain, should she be unjustly attacked. " It was by defending the principles of order and legitimacy, that England came out victorious from the long and sanguinary contest which she sustained against the French Revolution. The same success will attend us, if ever .we should, in our turn, be called upon to defend the same principles." • •. (From the Journal des Debella of Wednesday.) It is reported, that yesterday, in the discussion on the Address, the Minister for Foreign Affairs made to the Chamber of Peers a declaration on the subject of Spain. In this declaration, the Mi nister for Foreign Affairs complained, as England has done, of the conduct of Spain towards Portugal, and officially announced the Fecal of the Marquis Demoustier. It is said that Baron Pasquier yoke, and that Viscount Chateaubriand delivered a very energetic speech on the speech of Mr. Canning. But the Chamber having decided before hearing the speaker, that no speech should be printed, the public wilLunfortunately be deprived of the knowledge of this debate, which, however, it is .so important to them to know. As it appears by the official bulletin, the result of this de bate was the sending hack the Address to the Committee, which will, at two o'clock this day, (Wednesday), present another pro ject to the Chamber. (From the Etoile dated Thursday.) The discussion yesterday in the Chamber of Peers engages uni versal attention. The Minister for Foreign Affairs declared yes terday to the Chamber of Peers, that the French Government had recalled its Ambassador to Madrid, in order to testify to the Court of Spain its formal disapprobation of the support which the Spa nish authorities had given to the enterprise of the Portuguese re fugees. The Minister exerted himself to show that France had acted on this occasion, with respect to Portugal, in the same man ner that England, in 1823, had acted with respect to Spain._ England then prevented all aggression in favour of the Spanish Constitutionalists ' on the part of the Portuguese. His Excellency finally declared that the King's Government hoped that the mea sures adopted by it, and by England, would have a happy result for the pacification of the Peninsula, and he concluded by saying, that France would always act as England had done for a long tune past against revolutions, and revolutionists. PARIS STOCK EXCHANGE, WEDNESDAY EVENING, Die. 20. --=Five per Cents. 99f. 55c. ; Three per Cents. 67f. 'Mc. ; 68f. 50e. ; for the end of the month, 70f. 10c. ; 70f. 60e. No fresh advices from Lisbon have arrived to day, nor do the other letters which we have seen differ in character from the intelligence which we published yesterday. The advance of the Rebels seems to have been' uninterrupted ; and it may be apprehended, that Oporto will fall into their hands before the British Forces-can reach the Portuguese territory. If, how ever, things should remain in their present state at LISBON till our succours arrive, we have little doubt that a most important effect will be instantaneously produced upon public feeling all over the country, and that the supineness and distrust which at present exist in every department of the Government of Portugal, will be succeeded by energetic and decisive measures. We wait the next accounts with the most anxious so licitude. The Journal of St. Petersburgh to the sth inst. has been received this morning. It contains some re gulations ofithe EMPEROR'S respecting the, Military Colonies, which possess no interest for our readers. The following is of a commercial nature : ' CT. VETIEKSBURGH, Nov. 29. The number of merchantmen that have entered' the port of Rigs, from the commencement' of the season to the 24th of this month, amounted to 1,021 ; sailed 995. I.—The Russian American Company has acquainted the shareholders, through the medium of the journals, that during the course of this year three of its vessels have arrived in Russia with cargoes to the value of 2,100,000 rubles, in furs and other goods, derived from its trade in North America ; two of these vessels put into the port of Ocbotsk ; the third, which has arrived at Cronstadt, has also brought 10,000 pods of sugar, purchased in Brazil. This last ship, which sailed from this port in 1824, has happily accomplished the voyage round the world. The two others were to sail again for the colonies this autumn. Dutch Papers to the 20th inst., and the Allgerneine Zeitung of the 15th, have also been received. The following are extracts : auusszt.s, DEC. 12. The Government has given orders that the powder magazines at Bergen, in Hainnult, shall be removed to come place out of the town. We learn that Colonel Smith yesterday received orders from his Government immediately to return to England ; the regiment of artillery, commanded by him, iv on the point of embarking for Portugal. AWITIMDAM, NOV. 19. Exchange on London-40. 1. ; Two months, 39. 10. stusuctr, DEC. 13. The Government Gazette of to-day, publishes the new regula tions for the import, export, and transit duties. These interesting regulations prove that the interests of agriculture, manufacture, and commerce, have been equally studied, and that they have been formed not upon financial considerations, but with a view to the national ptoeperity. We are happy to see in the introduction to the first ordinance the reserve respecting commercial treaties, which seem to indicate that the union of several states in one system is not given up, notwithstanding the difficulties that have hitherto opposed it. The instances in which the import duties are increased are.nnt considerable, and evidently calculated for the interest of agriculture and manufactures, without preventing or obstructing commerce. On the other hand the exportation and transit are favoured in the mast liberal manner, and a very great diminution of the tolls in the roads will render the inland trade as free as possible, and remove the obstacles with which it formerly had to contend. =CHANGE ON LONDON. ITIrxNA, Uxc. 9.-1110talliques, 9O; Bank, Shares, 1 I We noticed yesterday the v e ry illiberal attack made by the Times on the whole body of Stock-brokers, in an article in which they were designated rogues, with. out exception. That article appears to have brought upon the Times a complete hornet's nest ; not only have persons of that ~ calling" taken up the subject, but most of the other daily papers have commented very sensibly on the impropriety of so gross and sweeping a condemnation of a body of men, amongst whom, if there be unfortunately some whose characters might not bear the ordeal of the severest criticism, there are many others whose character and honour are unim peachable, and , who fill their station in society with the highest inteqity and respectability. Of t h e me mbers of the Stock Exchange a large pro portion are ' Brokers, in , the strictest acceptation o f the term, and have no other dealings than buying and selling according to legislative enact ments, a portion of the public securities of the coml.. ILS. Arrived. Due. try indjwe know 'not Why a man, whose business i t is to transfer-stock, is to be insulted with opprobrious epithets, more than the man who conveys landed pro perty, or purchases on commission sugars, wine, or other commodities. Instances, too, have been very rare in which the public have•sustained any losses by stock-brokers, in the regular course of business : and when such instances have occurred, it has generally appeared that the parties have themselves been engag ed in some speculations which have led to the ruin Of their broker as well as themselves. In another col umn will be found a letter to the .. Editor of th e Tunes on the subject ; and we-subjoin a paragraph, taken from the Morning Herald to - day , on the same topic:— A. philippic against the stock-brokers, which has appeared in a Morning Paper to-day, has excited the indignation of those gen?' tlemen to a very high degree. The writer has designated the whole body, without a single exception, as a set of rogues. Of course nobody will imagine that we shall ever become the advo cates of stock-jobbers : they are a body of gentlemen, indeed, with whom the conductors of the paper in question are much better acquainted than we are • for, unless common report lies most egregiously, few persons have employed more of them than their present accusers. The stock-brokers themselves--at least, that portion of them with whom we have conversed- 14 Y they did not expect such an attack from such a quarter. 'll4 have borne the stabs of other newspaper writers patiently ; but " this," they say, " is the unkindest cut of all," and ".Et to Brute?' is the general exclamation.—Herald. that • We could hardly believe the evidence of our own senses yesterday, when we read in the Chronicle the the e te s .co co un ul t d rY, tio i t n he it l s p following Leading Article, describing the flourishing', state of the Revenue, and the. general prosperitY Pf • - - but we were immediately the same Journal which had so long endeavoured fionrequigiirlingandwhdoethmeerstithsc nvairsa.o.. to give the blue devils to every person who ventured to think on the state of the country ? ••• . . tainly was the same Chronicle which had always been, wrong ; and .that therefore we ought not to allow our . spirits to be toe much elevated by its present glowing description of the political and financial pros" . them, suggesting perity of Great Britain. But our readers will be joi n ' u patient to share the happiness which this article is we answered that it cer calculated to excite, and we therefore hasten to give it only whether they will question the motive, or the information, upon which it is found'' Government are assured of the firm determination of Fraud to preserve peace. We learn from a quarter on which we place the utmost r rii ; ance, that the Revenue is rapidly i m p r oving, and the peee rp ' grr remain qm n lu c fg e i 15p,ueedteshii.efaxot continue next rtrxiwndt twelve yi s eve t erael.ss b et wee n e months Tar h e e i p re sent France rPe nearly seorn a ttau t ndg an t l end. measures, quarter will considerably exceed that of the corresponding quar t : of the last year. We would fain hope, from this cheering jut's"' ,Ewngolianind,crenaoseloathne p ill il l , : should • th eilwr., expenditure, we are assured, much less than might be sutre'M The flourishing aspect of the Revenue has thrown all the ''''' veil:merit people into great spirits. Great hopes are entertained in well informed circles, that ° t it intelligence of the measures about to be adopted by England, p it the concurrence of France, will have the effect of discourse able to the general belief, which ing the insurgents, and preventing f.e spread of revolt. VT , argue, that the success of the insurgent'. hitherto is chiellY e rcri , create, that Frauce and Spain would support the insurrection, s.: that England would be afraid to declare herself. -They infe511,1101: all the doubtfully inclined, a large body of every country' vi te l etc . _the receipt of intelligence so fatal to the hopes of the ultinroarhesiode cesa of the Insurgents, immediately range themselves ° of the Constitution. 'ests andlhe ,Alk That our fondest inclinations are agsint the rn oleo, t howerer, greatins have been taken 1, , solutists we need hardly declare. We ba se 16° thaw We ocen . we been disappointed in our hopes of th e P. ? su however, ti;ot are far from being sanguine tow' ourselves h o p e, ill tarn out t o he those who are more sanguine than w right. this inorning will ing subject ; and, as its article o f munity, we afford delight to the manufacturing corn The Chronicle, to-day, resumes the subjoin it also :--- ti of the state of We yesterday . alluded to the flattering accocintivernment peop;e. the Revenue, and the consequent spirits of the . u°ellihe from thr Good or had news seldom come alone. The tt an ... „.,,, iiit iou, manufacturing districts would a loe to varr ....:1'" „...ser turning raptly 10...01. that the industry of the country is re nue . syniptoi state, and that the prosperous state of the Reve ti tic of a general prosperity. same a.nliv.en.;; allow that we ar e Our readers will do us the justice to ~ that th e late not of the number of those who concefive 1 ittaiity- 00 stagnation of industry was the result o f an foreigner*. restrictions on the the part of our inanufacturers, to compete ~ e _.., 1 „ the That the restrictions on trade, and more . 4 .1 . , ( 3 . * . ,,, t i t „ cramp the industiy of this country, by preventing .I % ‘ " lly i ng fur between us and nations possessed of no other mm eas,n s , " i l'i3 O to co' our goods than their agricultural I'e and tenuet u ~ prot_ ut. , . west then' in° ry rich ether nations, by inducing capitalists to ir . vo _ ll the g o in countries in which the lower price of food me r'_ en 1 „ g 111 But this cause had De ,, _ neral rate of profits, was obvious. as a __ ool .„„ l eti by importation of agricultural prodaiiie,_ttecit;uvie operation, and the stagnation of our industry w c'' ry. r in fact, a price of labour lower than that of any other co v ers) of the 10. the low price of our goods has actually ruined sr . ~: iii 1 , 1 ; 1. 0 nufacturing establishments in the United States; l! irf ith „„ ,e of heavy protecting duties, were unable to comp ete " their own markets. Plople malty boast of the undoubted. --the 0600 i D e lls' privileges of Englishmen, and of that envia b ' e z ht i1 : l iv id ual,—a individual --the dium of their freedom—the Liberty of the P ress ' " their boasts are worse than ridiculous, while t h e disgra ce present monstrous Law of Libel is a llowed t ° , , yy ,„,„ the C our t --s, for the public protection of at characterstuta...-- tornies. All law that the benefit of the public—not for this °I. c ail, enlighten and cheer a dn se e and is Wily paramount to every other consideration. i, then shall our laws be ostensibly made like the light "' Heaven, far thegeneral comfort antlblessing of the cow: 'nullity, if their virtue is to be directed to a comer , ','„ the private benefit of low minded 1 verse is mocked with a boon never to be Or t Y; Id„but by communion with the outcasts °ldle ert,o,_ religion tells us thaLtruth is the fountain of .10at l '' g orious. rogiriplirtdifeiisssi eestictl:t Nosi.:l))tiee:msa:di oe e . i t i , and the practice of our divines inculcates the I sentiment --but the practice of our COUrti Of La! , leads to a different conclusion—for there truth, the Al l tribute of the Almighty—is declared to be 4 C tlrs ) (or a libel, which terms are nearly quo:1)11'4:n%; greater in atrocity in proportion as truth is M oll ,-. nifest. Thus we have the law of the land --e Cb ris i ; tian land—at direct variance with the law of t Almighty—a precious absurdity for Judges to Ten' cile to common sense, which ought to be the sta n ` l , sr o p of all law, as truth ought to be the foundation 0; justice. The practice of the lust month in our Courtgo°i i law is as different to the common feelings of the P u ' h ) t ' as light from darkness ; and sorry are we to observe t.l - of the Bench lending itself to the comment* don of such practice—for the oinions of men placed il . l ow p r o i r si ~e i gr u letf n o o er r uogt u h h ge t st p eon u t hL m i good c iehliet r e e i n accort lt 0 1 c' —tenlidbeernacit,Yof all d `pu lli bl e i t e en it aelst S Jima, the improvement and impartial_roteetical 'f virtuous citizens. But how widely different is the pro tice ; let the verdicts of our Juories, and the Ong of . our Judges in alleged casts f libel, tes tify 1 vin' 8